New floors and hard core photogs

 

  

 

Alright.  This post is for hard core photographers.  Read on if you like, but be prepared for possible boredom.

We refinished part of a floor over the weekend.  We lifted old tiles sanded down the pine floor to match the old one.  We then varnished the new floor.

I decided to share some of the photos with family.  I shot one of the pictures with a small sensor Canon G10 and the other with a large sensor full frame Sony 25 megapixel camera.  Can you tell which is which?  I thought the Sony would have a huge advantage in dynamic range and that the window in the two bottom photos would be recovered in the Sony and totally lost in the Canon.  NOT! as Borat might say.  The windows both hold very well.  The cameras both have IS.  The Sony shot at 1/30th of a second and the Canon 1/10, both hand held!  Both lenses are 28mm equivalents.  Hint hint.  The small sensor has greater depth of focus.

Michael Reichmann at Luminous Landscape did a similar exercise several months ago with the Canon G10 and found interesting results with a landscape scene.

Of course resolution is one of the key differences.  The Canon G10 just can't match the Sony under all circumstances every time.  But I find the highlight and dynamic range question one more amazing accomplishment with a small sensor.